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2014 Vol :3
Trout have been stocked in the
river since 1974. In the early 2000s,
Alabama Power partnered with the
Alabama Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources (ADCNR),
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and other groups and proposed
improvements for the tailrace.
"The plan was developed to
improve access to the tailrace, provide
habitat enhancements to improve the
fishery and the fishing in the tailrace,
and it also developed a minimum
flow system in the tailrace that would
provide a 50 cubic-feet-per-second
flow at all times," said Jason Carlee,
Environmental Affairs supervisor with
Alabama Power.
Once improvements were made,
APC installed steel public access
"BY STOCKING TROUT BELOW THE DAM, IT
WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RECREATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES TO OUR AREA AND WILL
CONTINUE TO ATTRACT AVID ANGLERS
AND THEIR FAMILIES TO THE COMMUNITY."
– L IND A L E W IS, P R ESID EN T O F T HE
CH A M BER O F COM M ERCE O F WA L K ER CO UN T Y.
Left: Photo by Billy BroWn — More than
35,000 trout are stocked annually into the tailrace.
